Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Five: Chief Petty Officer Cook J. S. Nother, Royal Navy

1914-15 Star (347530. J. S. Nother. Sh. Ck., R.N.); British War and Victory Medals (347530 J. S. Nother. Sh. Ck. R.N.); Imperial Service Medal, E.II.R., 1st issue (James Samuel Nother); Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 2nd issue, fixed suspension (347530. J. S. Nother, C.P.O. Cook. H.M.S. Victory.) nearly very fine and better (5) £100-£140

James Samuel Nother was born in Portsea, Hampshire, on 24 June 1888 and joined the Royal Navy as an Acting Cook’s Mate on 6 July 1906. Advanced Ship’s Cook on 26 April 1914, he served during the Great War in H.M.S. Southampton, and was advanced Chief Petty Officer Cook on 15 September 1919. He was awarded his Long Service and Good Conduct Medal on 19 July 1921, and was shore pensioned on 5 July 1928. He was subsequently employed as a Photoprinter, Grade II, at the Admiralty Signal and Radar Establishment at Haslemere, and was awarded his Imperial Service Medal upon retirement in 1955 (London Gazette 3 May 1955). He died in Portsmouth in 1964.

Sold together with the Bestowal Document for the Imperial Service Medal; and copied research.